Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/eževica

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *eževъ (“hedgehog-related”) +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*eževica f

Declension

Declension of *eževica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*eževica	*eževici	*eževicę̇
genitive	*eževicę̇	*eževicu	*eževicь
dative	*eževici	*eževicama	*eževicamъ
accusative	*eževicǫ	*eževici	*eževicę̇
instrumental	*eževicejǫ, *eževicǫ**	*eževicama	*eževicami
locative	*eževici	*eževicu	*eževicasъ, *eževicaxъ*
vocative	*eževice	*eževici	*eževicę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

• *ežakъ, *ežikъ
• *eževъ(jь)
  • *eževika
  • *eževina
• *ežica, *ežika
• *ežina
• *ežiti (sę)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Russian: ежени́ца (ježeníca) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: је́жевица; Је́жевица (toponym)

    Latin script: jéževica; Jéževica (toponym)

  • Slovene: ježevíca

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*eževica / *eževika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 35